Antigravity A1 Hits Its Lowest Price Ever — And The Timing Has Everything To Do With DJI

The Antigravity A1 — the world’s first purpose-built 8K 360-degree drone — is now 20% off across all bundles in North America. The Spring Sale runs March 16 through April 16, dropping the Standard Bundle from $1,599 to $1,279. It’s the deepest discount since launch — the previous sale in January shaved 15% off — and it lands nine days before DJI officially unveils the competing Avata 360 on March 26.

Ben Liu, Global PR Manager at Antigravity, confirmed the promotion directly to DroneXL:

“From March 16 to April 16, we’re offering our biggest discount since launch — a North America exclusive Spring Sale with 20% off the drone.”

Antigravity A1 Spring Sale Pricing

The 20% discount applies across all six bundle configurations. Here are the main tiers:

The Standard Bundle includes the A1 drone, Vision Goggles, Grip Motion Controller, one flight battery, a carry case, and spare propellers — everything needed to fly straight out of the box. The Explorer adds extra batteries and travel accessories. The Infinity and Ultimate tiers are built for extended shooting sessions, though note: the higher-capacity batteries push the drone above 249 grams, which triggers FAA registration requirements in the United States.

What Makes The Antigravity A1 Worth Considering

The Antigravity A1 is not a traditional camera drone. It captures everything around it simultaneously in 8K using a dual 1/1.28-inch sensor system — one lens on top, one on the bottom — with no gimbal. Advanced stitching algorithms built on Insta360’s five generations of 360 camera technology render the drone itself completely invisible in the footage, creating a floating-camera effect that no conventional drone can produce.

The key creative advantage is workflow. Instead of composing shots mid-flight, you capture the full sphere and choose your angle later in post-production. Reframe to forward, top-down, rear, or any angle in between. Apply a Tiny Planet effect. Export in any aspect ratio. The shot you didn’t know you wanted is often already in the footage, because the camera was pointed everywhere at once.

That said, the 360 capture approach comes with real trade-offs. Because you’re always cropping into an 8K sphere during editing, effective output resolution is lower than what a dedicated directional camera delivers natively. Russ from 51 Drones put it directly in his first-flight tutorial: “Don’t expect professional video quality right out of the camera… if you’re thinking you’re going to have professional video quality right out of the camera, know that there are more appropriate options for that.” The editing workflow also adds steps that traditional drone pilots won’t be used to — you’ll need Antigravity Studio on your desktop to get the most out of the footage.

Where the A1 genuinely shines is tracking fast-moving subjects — motorsports, mountain biking, skiing, anything where a conventional drone operator either loses the frame or has to fly uncomfortably close. With the A1 you don’t worry about framing at all. You fly, you don’t crash, and you sort the angles out at your desk. Our first impressions in December 2025 called it “the most refreshing drone to hit the consumer market in years,” and Jake Sloan’s full review — shot across Nevada and California — found it forces a complete rethink of how you approach aerial cinematography professionally.

April Firmware Update Adds Voice Control And Virtual Cockpit

The Spring Sale pairs with a major software update arriving in April. The update adds voice commands for core flight and shooting functions — triggering automated flight paths, subject tracking, and return-to-home by voice. A new “Virtual Cockpit” mode overlays a stylized virtual avatar into footage, blending real aerial capture with animated elements like flying creatures or aircraft. Time-lapse recording comes to both standard and Sky Path flight modes, and new animated route styles and interactive path markers upgrade Sky Path’s automated cinematic paths.

Buying during the Spring Sale means getting the drone at the lowest price it has ever been, then receiving these features as a free update next month.

The DJI Avata 360 Factor

This discount did not arrive in a vacuum. DJI launches the Avata 360 on March 26 — its direct answer to the A1 and the 360 drone category Antigravity created. As we noted when this sale was announced, the pattern is clear: Antigravity ran a 15% sale in January ahead of DJI’s teasers, and now a 20% sale drops the same week DJI confirms its launch date. Leaked pricing suggests the Avata 360 could land at roughly $499 drone-only in the US, with a Fly More Combo around $999 — though neither figure is confirmed until March 26.

The two drones are different products in meaningful ways. The A1 weighs 249 grams in its Standard configuration — no FAA registration required for recreational pilots. The Avata 360 reportedly comes in at 400 grams, which means registration and Remote ID compliance regardless of use case. The A1’s lenses are fixed and always shooting full 360. The Avata 360 has a tiltable camera that switches between 360 mode and a standard forward-facing FPV mode — more versatile in some scenarios, but a different flying philosophy. And critically, the A1 Standard Bundle at $1,279 includes the drone, goggles, and controller. If the Avata 360 drone-only entry price holds at ~$499, buyers will need to add goggles and a controller separately — hardware that brings the total cost considerably closer to the A1’s current sale price.

As of today, the A1 is also the only 8K 360 drone you can officially purchase and use in the United States. That changes on March 26.

DroneXL’s Take

Antigravity built something genuinely new. That almost never happens in this industry. GoPro, Sony, Skydio, and Parrot all tried to challenge DJI’s dominance and failed. Antigravity didn’t try to out-DJI DJI — it created a category DJI hadn’t touched, shipped before DJI could respond, and built a product that actually works as advertised. That counts for a lot.

The 20% discount makes the A1 meaningfully easier to recommend than it was at $1,599. For pilots who shoot action sports, travel content, or anyone tired of missing shots because the camera wasn’t pointing the right direction — this is still the only drone available in the US today that solves that problem at this quality level.

The honest framing going into March 26: if DJI’s ~$499 drone-only price holds and the full ecosystem bundle lands near $999, the A1 at $1,279 isn’t obviously overpriced — it’s a complete system with goggles and controller included. But it needs to hold that comparison together once reviews start shipping and real-world footage from both drones is side by side. If the Avata 360’s image quality at $999-all-in matches or beats the A1 at $1,279-all-in, Antigravity faces a harder conversation in late April.

The Spring Sale runs through April 16. Full bundle details and pricing are available directly on Antigravity’s website.

Editorial Note: AI tools were used to assist with research and archive retrieval for this article. All reporting, analysis, and editorial perspectives are by Haye Kesteloo.